Council of the said Province of Otago accordingly.

Given under my hand, and issued under the Public Seal of the Islands of New Zealand, at Auckland, in the Islands aforesaid, this fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

(Signed) THOMAS GORE BROWNE,
Governor.

By His Excellency’s command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Colonial Secretary’s Office,
Auckland, 13th Sept. 1855.

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified that the undermentioned Acts passed by the General Assembly last Session have been submitted to the Queen, and that Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to leave them to their operation.

No. 4. “The Nelson Trust Funds Act, 1854.”
5. “The Licensing Amendment Act, 1854.”
6. “The Waste Lands Act, 1854.”
7. “The Public Reserves Act, 1854.”
8. “The Law Practitioners’ Act, 1854.”
9. “The Secondary Punishment Act, 1854.”
10. “The Powers of Attorney Act, 1854.”
11. “The Appropriation Act, 1854.”
12. “The Marriage Act, 1854.”

By His Excellency’s command,

ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Colonial Secretary.

PROCLAMATION.

By His Honor William Cargill, Esquire, Superintendent of the Province of Otago.

WHEREAS by an Ordinance enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor of New Zealand, by and with the consent of the Legislative Council thereof, Session VII., No. 7, intituled “An Ordinance for the Regulation of Prisons,” it is enacted that “it shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor, from time to time, as to him shall seem meet, by Proclamation, to declare any House, Building, Enclosure, or Place, to be a Public Gaol: and from and after the publication of any such Proclamation, such House, Building, Enclosure, or Place, shall be deemed and taken to be a Public Gaol.”

And whereas, by another Ordinance enacted by the Superintendent of the Province of Otago, by and with the advice of the Provincial Council thereof, Session I., No. 6, intituled “An Ordinance to empower the Superintendent of the Province of Otago to perform certain acts heretofore performed by the Governor or Lieutenant-Governors of New Zealand, and by the Resident Magistrate of Otago,” it is provided that all such powers as are conferred by the Ordinances enumerated in the Schedule thereto appended, upon “the Governor-in-Chief, Governors, or Lieutenant-Governors, or the Officer administering the Government of the Colony or Province for the time being, are thereby, within the Province of Otago, conferred on the Superintendent thereof.”

And whereas the Ordinance aforesaid is included in the said Schedule:

And whereas in consequence of the Building formerly proclaimed as a Public Gaol in Dunedin having been accidentally destroyed by fire on the 22nd day of October, 1855, it is desirable that the Building now used as an Immigration Barrack in the Town of Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, should temporarily, and until a building suitable for the purposes of a Gaol be erected, be proclaimed to be a Public Gaol of the Colony. Now therefore I, the said Superintendent of the Province of Otago, do hereby proclaim and declare that the Building aforesaid shall be deemed and taken to be one of the Public Gaols of the Colony of New Zealand.

Given under my hand and seal at Dunedin, in the Province of Otago, this twenty-third day of October, One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.

Superintendent’s Office,
Dunedin, 1st October 1855.

I HEREBY NOTIFY that I have appointed the following Gentlemen, jointly and severally, to be Emigration Agents in Australia for the Province of Otago, in New Zealand, for the purpose of selecting and making advances for the passage of labour Emigrants (within the amount appropriated thereto) and with due regard to the character and fitness of the parties; also to create facilities of passage for other parties desiring to remove to Otago.

William Hunter Reynolds, Esq.,
Merchant, Otago.
H. P. Sawell, Esq., Merchant,
Melbourne, Australia.

W. CARGILL,
Superintendent.